--- title: Met Museum Cat Art Chrome Extension description: Metropolitan Museum of Art has a Chrome plug in that displays cat art when new tabs are opened canonical: https://time.com/3962478/cat-pictures-internet-metropolitan-museum-plug-in/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-17T14:41:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:14.914Z og:title: Met Museum Cat Art Chrome Extension og:description: Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's cat art Chrome plug-in og:url: https://time.com/3962478/cat-pictures-internet-metropolitan-museum-plug-in/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63bd4285fba897e5/69885b658e0601a2b5461705/screen-shot-2015-07-17-at-10-22-58-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-07-17 at 10.22.58 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Met Museum Cat Art Chrome Extension twitter:description: Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's cat art Chrome plug-in twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt63bd4285fba897e5/69885b658e0601a2b5461705/screen-shot-2015-07-17-at-10-22-58-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Now You Can Feel Less Guilty About Looking at Cat Photos on the Internet All Day ## Video: Lil Bub: Not All Glitter And Catnip [Watch (HLS stream): Lil Bub: Not All Glitter And Catnip](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/eXkhofQI.m3u8) (2:27)  _Published 2013-10-30. Lil Bub and owner Mike Bridavsky describe the hectic touring life of a famous feline._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 17, 2015 2:41 PM CUT   by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 17, 2015 2:41 PM CUT The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s media lab has unveiled an extension for Google Chrome called “Meow Met,” which shows a work of art featuring a cat from the museum’s collection every time a new browser tab is opened. Designed by Emily McAllister, the extension features pieces by famous artists such as Mary Cassatt, Édouard Manet, Rembrandt, John Singer Sargent, and Walker Evans. The plug-in is the [latest example](http://time.com/1549/pussy-riot-the-art-show/ "undefined") of how museums have taken to curating cat art to attract millennial visitors. The Brooklyn Museum presented an exhibit about cats in ancient Egypt while Japan Society put on a show about the history of cats in Japanese art, and most famously, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis started a cat video festival that has toured the country. (h/t [Hyperallergic](http://hyperallergic.com/222538/cat-art-from-the-met-museum-makes-the-purrfect-browser-plug-in/ "undefined")) ### Google Project Aims to Make Street Art Immortal  Chilean artist INTI on Reynoldstown Crossing, Atlanta for Living Walls 2013. Joshua Gwyn—Living Walls  French artist 3ttman in Summerhill, Atlanta for Living Walls 2013. Joshua Gwyn—Living Walls  Street artist eL Seed's It impossible, Cape Town, South Africa. Kent Lingeveldt—Itinerrance Gallery  Street artist eL Seed's Lost Wall on the Star Wars film set in Onk el Jmel, Tunisia. Ouahid Berrehouma—Itinerrance Gallery  Abiding In The Broken Heart by DALeast in Malaga, Spain, 2013. Courtesy CAC Málaga  French street artist JR's Women Are Heroes dominates the Morro da Providencia favela, one of Brazil's most dangerous, in Rio de Janeiro, August 20, 2008. Vanderlei Almeida—AFP/Getty Images  The artwork of Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils decorates the walls with faces that represent the people who live in Providencia, the oldest slum in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 29, 2012. Luiz Claudio Martins Baltar—Flickr/Getty Images  The face of a woman who used to live in the demolished residential block is seen carved into a remaining wall by street artist Vhils and his team in Shanghai on March 1, 2012. Niu Yixin—EPA  A piece by Mark Barretto, a Filipino artist currently living in Dubai, created during a return visit to Cavite, Philippines. Mark Barretto—Filipino Street Art Project  French street artist C215's work on the Calada da Pampulha in Lisbon. JosŽ Vicente—Departamento de Patrim—nio Cultural  A piece of Roa's rodent series in the East End of London, Nov. 15, 2011. Matthew Lloyd—Getty Images  Carnaval Latinoamericano by Charquipunk and La Robot de Madera in San Miguel, Chile. Managers Open Air Museum in San Miguel: Mixart Cultural Center  Thierry Noir and Stik's historic collaboration on The Village Underground Wall in Shoreditch, London, February 2013. 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